During adulthood, your personality will develop through a series
of specific stages that is much the same for all individuals.
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There is no single set of stages that accurately describes the
course of adult personality development.
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During your 40s (or thereabouts), you will experience a “midlife
crisis”– a time of considerable psychological turmoil,
worry, and despair.
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Most adults do not experience a severe crisis at midlife. Those
who do tend to have suffered similar crises throughout their adulthood.
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The elderly are much more likely to view themselves as powerless
pawns, influenced primarily by external events they cannot control.
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General expectations about control change little with increasing
age, although the elderly do perceive themselves as having less
control over their lives in such specific areas as intellectual
functioning, health, and personal development.
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